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Castletownbere’s
Severn
class RNLI all weather lifeboat ‘Annette Hutton’, under command of
Coxswain Brian O’Driscoll and
crew B. Gonnelly, M. O’Donoghue, P. Stevens, M. Murphy, , M.
O’Sullivan. J.T. O’Sullivan Jnr, & M. Martin-Sullivan Jnr.,
launched at
12.55 p.m.
. and proceeded to the vessel just at the entrance to
Berehaven
Harbour
. The lifeboat was on scene at
1.03 p.m.
and went alongside the Spanish vessel in force 5 west south west winds
with slight sea conditions. Four lifeboat crew boarded the vessel and
the casualty, a man in his mid thirties, was given first aid and
prepared for transfer to the lifeboat. Once placed in a stretcher he was
transferred to the lifeboat at
1.22 p.m.
and taken immediately to Castletownbere. He was landed at the pier at
1.35 p.m.
and a waiting ambulance transferred him to
Cork
University
Hospital
. The lifeboat was ready for service again by
2.05 p.m.
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